Johnson & Johnson announced Monday that it has agreed to pay $5.5 billion to put to rest tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging its talcum powder products caused ovarian cancer, with plaintiffs' counsel calling the deal "long-delayed justice" for their clients.
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J&J, Ovarian Cancer Talc Claimants Unveil $5.5B Global Deal

By Lauren Berg

Johnson & Johnson announced Monday that it has agreed to pay $5.5 billion to put to rest tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging its talcum powder products caused ovarian cancer, with plaintiffs' counsel calling the deal "long-delayed justice" for their clients.

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Cooley Owes $25.4M Judgment To NJ Biotech Co. Founder

By Brian Steele

A New Jersey state court on Monday entered a $25.4 million judgment against Cooley LLP after a jury found the multinational firm had committed malpractice in its representation of a biotech founder who said his own lawyers assisted in shoving him out of his company.

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Sig Sauer Likely Faces Remand Of NJ Gun Marketing Suit

By Carla Baranauckas

A New Jersey judge on Monday recommended sending the state attorney general's lawsuit alleging Sig Sauer Inc. deceptively marketed its P320 handgun back to state court, concluding the firearms-maker failed to establish that the case belonged in federal court.

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NJ Justices Set 3rd-Party Legal Fee Rules In Criminal Cases

By Adrian Cruz

The New Jersey Supreme Court on Monday set forth parameters for third-party legal fee arrangements in criminal cases, upholding a murder conviction on the grounds that no conflict of interest resulted from a state witness paying his lawyer and finding that third‑party payments don't create per se conflicts of interest.

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AbbVie Seeks Block On Alkem Generic Constipation Drug

By Gianna Ferrarin

AbbVie Inc. and collaborator Ironwood Pharmaceuticals urged a New Jersey federal court to bar India-based generic-drug maker Alkem Laboratories from selling generic versions of their branded constipation drug while associated patents are active, arguing Alkem would violate patent law by doing so.

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NJ Mayor Fights DOJ Bid To Toss False Arrest Suit

By Lynn LaRowe

Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka is pushing back on a bid from the U.S. Department of Justice to dismiss a lawsuit over his allegedly unlawful arrest last year outside an ICE facility, telling a New Jersey federal court that the government's theories of immunity don't fit the facts and case law.

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LITIGATION

Trump Admin Appeals Partial Block On Mail Ballot Order

By Julie Manganis

The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to step in after the First Circuit declined on Saturday to lift a lower court's order prohibiting the administration from enforcing restrictions on mail-in balloting in 23 states and the District of Columbia in this year's general election.

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Live Nation, DOJ Say States Have Enough Discovery Into Deal

By James Boyle

The U.S. Department of Justice has joined with Live Nation to resist a discovery request by a bipartisan group of state attorneys general seeking more information about a settlement the federal government reached with the company in the middle of an antitrust trial.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Using Disclosure Process Defense In Securities Fraud Cases

Courts' recent endorsement of the involvement-of-counsel defense in securities fraud litigation has clarified that its use depends on how evidence is used, carrying important lessons for presenting evidence of a disclosure process to undermine scienter, say attorneys at Sidley.

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Judges On AI: Examining Administrative, Organizational Uses

U.S. District Judge Alan Albright of the Western District of Texas examines how artificial intelligence could transform a court's ability to deal with administrative work and organize materials when preparing for hearings or drafting opinions, thereby affording judges more time to resolve contested issues.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

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Milbank Issues Bonuses To Associates, Special Counsel

By Andrea Keckley

Milbank LLP is continuing to lead the way on bonuses, confirming Monday it has issued a round of special bonuses ranging from $6,000 for the class of 2026 and 2025 associates to $25,000 for the class of 2021 associates and beyond.

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ABA Says Feds' Susman Godfrey DQ Bid Is More Intimidation

By Lauren Berg

The American Bar Association on Monday urged the D.C. federal judge overseeing its lawsuit challenging 2025 executive orders targeting law firms to reject the Trump administration's bid to have Susman Godfrey LLP disqualified as plaintiffs' counsel, calling it the latest "effort to intimidate" the American legal profession.

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Quinn Emanuel's Ethics Training 'Promising,' Judge Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge Monday approved a court-ordered ethics training program prepared by Quinn Emanuel in the wake of misrepresentations the firm made concerning an expert in a false advertising suit brought by Guardant Health against its client Natera, saying the firm had designed an "extremely promising" eight-hour program.

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Simpson Thacher Atty Says Patriot Nat'l Founder Sank Co.

By Madison Arnold

A Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner wrapped up her testimony Monday in a Florida state malpractice trial brought by the founder of Patriot National Inc., telling the jury that the founder was willing to forgo establishing a floor on the value of so-called Series B warrants, which he says contributed to the company's demise.

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300+ Public Defenders Strike In The Bronx

By Andrea Keckley and Daniel Moritz-Rabson

More than 300 attorneys and staff with the Bronx Defenders Union went on strike Monday, one year after the last time the union walked off the job.

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Comey Says Seashell Post No Threat To Trump

By Abigail Harrison

Former FBI Director James Comey urged a North Carolina federal court Monday to dismiss an indictment stemming from a social media post he made last year, arguing the post doesn't constitute a "true threat" to President Donald Trump.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Arnold & Porter

Ashcraft & Gerel

Barnes & Thornburg

Blood Hurst

Brown & Connery

Burns Charest

Cohen Placitella

Conrad & Scherer

Cooley LLP

Cravath Swaine

Faegre Drinker

Golomb Legal

Hollingsworth LLP

Keller Anderle

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Levin Papantonio

Levin Sedran

Long & Levit

Lundy LLP

Mazie Slater

McCarter & English

Milbank LLP

Milberg PLLC

Motley Rice

Napoli Shkolnik

O'Melveny & Myers

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

Seeger Weiss

Selendy Gay

Sidley Austin

Sills Cummis

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Stearns Weaver

Susman Godfrey

Wagner Reese

Wilentz Goldman

Williams & Connolly

Winston Taylor

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AbbVie Inc.

Alkem Laboratories Ltd.

Allergan PLC

American Bar Association

Brooklyn Defender Services

Center for Family Representation Inc.

Chevron Corp.

Dow Inc.

General Electric Co.

Guardant Health Inc.

Instagram Inc.

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Johnson & Johnson

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

Marriott International Inc.

Natera Inc.

Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem

OrbiMed Advisors LLC

Patriot National Inc.

StubHub Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Attorney General's Office

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Food and Drug Administration

Homeland Security Investigations

Los Angeles Superior Court

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

New Jersey Court

New Jersey Office of the Public Defender

New Jersey Supreme Court

Social Security Administration

U.S. Army

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Postal Service

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court